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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Stanley Isaacs lose an assistant?
(a) He was a Communist.
(b) Issacs was broke.
(c) Someone offered him more money.
(d) He fled the country.

2. What is Dashiell Hammett's job?
(a) He was an actor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) He was unemployed

3. Abe Fortas expressed that he wanted what to happen at a hearing?
(a) Someone to take a moral stand.
(b) Someone to reveal a secret.
(c) Someone to assassinate McCarthy.
(d) Someone to cause a scene.

4. Why was Hellman in a good position for her testimony?
(a) She didn't know much about others' activities.
(b) The panel didn't see her as a threat.
(c) No one testified against her.
(d) She was good at persuasion.

5. Hellman found it ________ to write about her experiences during the McCarthy hearings.
(a) Difficult.
(b) Tedious.
(c) Easy.
(d) Cathartic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Norman Cousins say at the World Peace Conference?

2. What was Hellman's "sin" after gaining literary success?

3. Where did Whittaker Chambers hide the "state secrets"?

4. How did Hellman feel after Roosevelt's election?

5. Before Hellman's politics developed, what did she miss?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Gary Cooper taunting the government during his hearing?

2. What was Hellman's stance on the Communist Party? Why?

3. How were the liberal Democrats convinced to support the House Committee and Blacklist?

4. How did Hammett respond to Hellman's plan to testify? Why did he react this way?

5. What would deem someone "guilty" to the House Committee?

6. Was Hellman a Communist? Why did the government scrutinize her?

7. Why did Hammett end up going to jail?

8. How did Hellman plan to approach her testimony? Why did she plan to take this action?

9. How did Hellman change people's approach to the McCarthy hearings when called to testify?

10. In the House Committee, how did measures progress after Hoover joined?

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